Oak Hill Mayor Heidi Campbell is the latest candidate to launch a campaign for state Senate District 20, currently held by Republican Sen. Steven Dickerson, the Nashville Post reports. Campbell, a Democrat, has served as mayor and vice mayor of the city. She will face educational consultant Kimi Abernathy in the Democratic primary. Dickerson, who frequently sides with Democrats, is the only Nashville Republican in the House or Senate. He is facing a primary challenge of his own against Brentwood business consultant Diane Michel.

TBA members will begin voting March 2 for candidates who have qualified to run for vice president of the Tennessee Bar Association. Knoxville attorneys Tasha Blakney and Shelly Wilson will face off in the race for vice president. The winner will ascend to the office of TBA president in 2022. Find a complete list of other candidates who have been certified for election because they did not draw opposition. Additional information on voting, including candidate profiles, will be distributed in advance of the voting period, which runs through April 1.

Legal Aid of East Tennessee will host a general advice clinic tomorrow in Johnson City. The event will take place from 12:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the American Legion, 409 E. Market St., Johnson City 37601.

The TBA’s 2020 Federal Appellate Forum will take place March 25 in Nashville and feature 6th Circuit Court of Appeals Judges Jane Stranch, John Bush and John Rogers. An interactive panel with the judges will address best practices for federal appeals. The CLE also will include sessions on civil and criminal case law updates, how to make the most out of an oral argument and writing an effective brief. Don’t miss this opportunity to join judges and colleagues for this unique forum. The course offers four CLE credits (one dual and three general).

Former Robertson County Mayor and Greenbrier City Attorney Robert Michael Crawford died Saturday at his home in Greenbrier. He was 83 years old. Crawford earned his law degree from the Nashville YMCA Night Law School in 1972. He was elected Robertson County judge in 1974 and served until 1982. The position was later renamed county mayor. Crawford also served as a county commissioner for many years. In 1982, he started a private law practice, representing individuals in domestic, civil and criminal cases. Visitation will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. tomorrow followed by funeral services at 1 p.m. at Greenbrier First Baptist Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations can be made to Shriners Hospital for Children, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital or the First Baptist Church of Greenbrier.

Volunteer attorneys and law students will be available to meet with injured workers and answer questions about workers’ compensation law at a free legal clinic March 14 in Knoxville. The clinic will take place from 9 a.m. to noon in the third floor courtroom of the Duncan School of Law, 601 W. Summit Hill Dr., Knoxville 37902. For more information, contact Jay Hicks at 615-741-5173. View a flyer for the event.

Tennessee courts and government offices were closed today in observance of the President’s Day holiday. There were no opinions issued.

Four federal prosecutors who sought a sentence of seven to nine years for political consultant Roger Stone have withdrawn from the case and at least two have resigned, the ABA Journal reports. Claims of political interference in the case led the American Bar Association to weigh in last week criticizing attacks on judges and prosecutors. And in related news, Stone is asking for a new trial after allegations that jury foreperson and attorney Tomeka Hart previously had shared anti-Trump posts on social media. Hart graduated from the University of Memphis School of Law. She now lives in the Washington, D.C., area and works at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The Daily Memphian has more on her role.

Vanderbilt University Law School students participating in the Stanton Foundation First Amendment Clinic recently scored a victory for the Human Rights Defense Center (HRDC), a prison rights advocacy organization. With the students’ assistance, HRDC filed a federal lawsuit against the Marshall County Jail, challenging the sheriff’s decision to withhold magazines the center had sent to inmates. The center won a preliminary injunction against the sheriff and ultimately the case was settled, ensuring that HRDC’s publications will be provided to inmates. Read more about the case from the law school.

Mary Stewart, the mother of Darrius Stewart — the teen shot and killed in 2015 by Memphis police officer Connor Schilling — has filed a new federal civil suit seeking $17 million in damages from the former officer. The suit states that her son’s constitutional and civil rights were violated by Schilling, the Daily Memphian reports. A Shelby County grand jury declined to indict Schilling on criminal charges and the U.S. Department of Justice Department determined there was not enough evidence to charge him with a federal crime. Darrius’s father filed a $7 million civil lawsuit against the city in 2016 but the city was dismissed from the suit.